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Louis Armstrong Turns On The World: West End Blues & Muggles
January 15, 2021
On the morning of June 28, 1928, six months after Lil left him and the band, Louis Armstrong reconvened the Hot Five with Earl Hines on the keys. There were really six musicians in the studio that day including Mancy Carr on banjo, Fred Robinson on trombone, Jimmy Strong

SVTs Change The Odds in Drug Testing
January 6, 2020
When I first began to cover drug testing for a little alternative newsweekly twenty years ago, the tests were laughably flawed. Fifty percent false positives were all-too-common which sounds like a travesty (and it was), but those same imperfections allowed people like me to pass my drug test with flying